Next steps to advance general physical activity recommendations towards physical exercise prescription: a narrative review

Abstract

Physical inactivity is a major health concern, associated with the development of several non-communicable diseases and with an increased mortality rate. Therefore, promoting active lifestyles has become a crucial public health necessity for enhancing overall health and quality of life. The WHO guidelines for physical activity (PA) present valuable contributions in this respect; however, we believe that greater specificity should be added or complemented towards physical exercise (PE) testing, prescription and programming in future recommendations. In this review article, we suggest simple and practical tools accessible to the entire population to improve the specificity of this approach, highlighting aspects of PE programming used by trained subjects. By adopting these suggestions, exercise professionals, clinicians and physical trainers can optimise the current general PA recommendations towards PE prescription to improve fitness status and encourage PE adherence in the general population.

Assessment of Physical Fitness Learning Objectives Using the Indonesian Student Fitness Test Instrument For Phase D Students

“…This is in line with the statement of Suhartoyo et al (2019) that junior high school students now spend more time with passive activities than physical activities. Encouraging an active lifestyle has become an important public health need to improve overall health and quality of life (Ricardo Festa et al, 2023). In adolescence, physical activity is vulnerable to influence (Kostamo et al, 2019;Martins et al, 2015).…”